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the patent holders need to take some cues from Linus Trovolds and learn how to sustain on the satisfaction of millions gleaning pure joy from your creation. Not Money.

Marge: "Well, Homer, maybe you can get some consolation in the fact that something you created is making so many people happy."
Homer: [sickly sweet] "Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane!"
[leaves the room, slamming the door]
[pokes his head back in]
Homer: "Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic."
[closes the door]
Marge: "Well, DUH!"
-- The Simpsons, episode 8F08: "Flaming Moe's"

We have a whole system set up to prevnt people like you from ever getting first post![*]

Suggestion: Planet Kwyjibo.

That should be "Well, it should be obvious to even the most dim-witted individual who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology". -- From tome of all wisdom, book of Frink

I'm picturing Lisa Simpson licking slime off a rock.

MVP seems a lot like the Stonecutters.

Homer: These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined. [sniffs tearily]

(thanks to snpp.com)

Remember the Simpsons arcade game? That was a good conversion to game -- people had fun playing it. If people have fun playing the Futurama game, why would you stand in their way?

Dude, YOU get it right.

Moe: Oh, boy! The deep fryer's here. Heh heh, I got it used from the navy. You can flash-fry a buffalo in forty seconds.
Homer: Forty seconds? But I want it now!

And don't turn around saying you were trolling. HTH, HAND.

From here:

% At the gun club meeting, Moe holds up a rifle, attached via strings
% and rods to four smaller weapons.

Moe: And that's how, with a few minor adjustments, you can turn a regular
gun into five guns. [receives applause]

M@

quoting from the book of all knowledge, 8f09 :

"Oooh, the Germans are mad at me. I'm so scared! Oooh, the Germans!

The "Germ mans" are only good at slaughtering helpless civilians. They're one step above the French!

quoting from the book of all knowledge, 8f09 :

"Oooh, the Germans are mad at me. I'm so scared! Oooh, the Germans!

The "Germ mans" are only good at slaughtering helpless civilians. They're one step above the French!

I'm a simpsons geek. Original simpsons quote

Mmm with a Tivo with this much HDD, I could record every episode... if I didn't live in Australia :(

We take eighteen ounces of sizzling ground beef, and soak it in rich,
creamery butter, then we top it off with bacon, ham, and a fried egg.
We call it the Good Morning Burger.
-- Homer watches a television advertisement, ``Bart's Friend Falls in Love''

Lisa resolves, ``I've gotta help him.''

Abe : Hah! The way people act around here, you'd think the streets were paved with gold.
Jasper: They are.

As if to prove Jasper's point, a car tries unsuccessfully to brake, but the shiny street surface is too slippery.

a hieroglyph that roughly translates to "Ha-Ha"

Or, for the purist: Bird, bird, giant eye, pyramid, bird.

"Me lose brain? Uh-oh!"
"Why I laugh?"

I'm sure the simpsons will have this on their show in no time...

"Me lose brain? Uh-oh!"
"Why I laugh?"

I'm sure the simpsons will have this on their show in no time...

The page is not widened, it is longened.

I prefer the term embiggened.

Me fail English? That's unpossible.

Alton: There are no bad foods, only bad food habits. I eat cream, butter, and bacon; I just don't eat pounds of it at a time...We like fats because fats satisfy.

Hmmm... reminds me of someone...

Next morning, the family tries to pry the bucket off Homer's noggin.

Bart: [tries to pull the bucket off, but fails] Sorry Dad, it just won't budge.
Marge: I tried greasing the bucket with bacon fat, but your father kept eating it.
Homer: Couldn't you try a non-delicious fat? [breaks down] Oh, there's no such thing!

Simpsons: Faith Off

Don't tell me you work in a box factory!

ireland? portugal? bulgaria? jamaica? suriname? senegal? burkina faso? togo? can someone throw us a bone here?! ;-P

Most of those countries do not fall under the category of small western nation.

Burkino Faso always reminds me of The Simpsons

"Three Weeks Later," says a caption on the screen, as Homer sits on the couch and reads a phone bill.

Homer: Burkina Faso? Disputed Zone? Who called all these weird places?
Brain: Quiet, it might be you! I can't remember.
Homer: Naw, I'm going to ask Marge.
Brain: No, no! Why embarrass us both? Just write a check and I'll release some more endorphins.

[Homer scribbles a check, then sighs with pleasure]

GMD

Homer: Uh...it's like...did anyone see the movie "Tron"?
Hibbert: No.
Lisa: No.
Marge: No.
Wiggum: No.
Bart: No.
Patty: No.
Wiggum: No.
Ned: No.
Selma: No.
Frink: No.
Lovejoy: No.
Wiggum: Yes. I mean -- um, I mean, no. No, heh.
-- "Treehouse of Horror VI"

Eat up Martha!

Dog: Hi, Homer. Find your soulmate.
Homer: Hey, wait a minute! There's no such thing as a talking dog!
Dog: [barks]
Homer: Damn straight!

(thanks, SNPP)

As always, The Simpsons has all the answers. To be extra dorky, I looked up the episode on snpp.com to confirm:

[Episode 3F01] Home Sweet Home- Diddily- Dum- Doodily
The child welfare people that come to take the Simpsons children away lists one of the offenses against Homer and Marge as 'toilet paper hung in improper overhand fashion.'

Hey, if it's enough to get your children taken away, that's good enough for me.

So does ol' gill on The Simpsons.

That would be an ObSimpsonsQuote..

I believe it is "Disparaging the boot is a bootable offense". http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F13.html

this reminds me of a famous Simpsons quote:

Homer: Well, the night started at the gentlemen's club,where we were discussing Witzchenstein over a game of Backgammon.
Scully: Homer, it's a felony to lie to the F.B.I.
Homer: We were sitting in Barney's car eating packets of mustard, there ya happy?

taken from [3G01] The Springfield Files

First, I'd like to agree and amplify Piquan's sibling comment. Customers don't know what they want. Remember the Simpsons Poochie episode? Check this episode (search the text for "Speedo men", it's the couple of sections below that.).

"Customers don't really know what they want" is virtually the first axiom of software engineering, and it holds for other disciplines as well. (Ask an architect about their customers... not quite as extreme as software, but they still get asked for the moon.)

Second, attempts to bypass Sturgeon's Law generally fail worse then if you just roll with it. Seeing what sticks is a necessary part of the process and can't be removed. It's the way of things.

In fact, you're already in a world where everything is being done to remove risk from the equation, everything is already being done to make sure that the shows stay on the air and aren't mediocre, and it's failing miserably. If the networks had a looser hand, a wider variety of ideas might be tried out, and hey, the next one might be the next Survivor. There's a good reason we recently imported so many show ideas from Britain...

It's Donny Don't, dumbass.

% Suddenly, the Comic Book Guy crashes through the skylight on the
% type of electromagnet you might see suspended from a crane. He is
% dressed as ... the Collector.

Collector: Behold, I am the Collector, and I have come to add
you to my collection.
[turns on a magnet, which attracts Lucy's
breastplate. She sails up to the magnet, where she
is trapped]
Lawless: Must ... remove ... my ... breastplate!
[unties the straps holding it on. Below, everyone
in the audience produces a camera]
Maybe later. [reties straps]
-- "Treehouse of Horror X"

From BABF01

M@

Hello, lamppost. Whatcha knowin'? I've come to watch your... power flowin'.

Is there anything left that doesn't have a relevant Simpsons quote? ;)

Burns: Now, as an added incentive, the second-to-last team to arrive at the cabin will receive an hilarious "world's first employee trophy."
Homer: Hey, this sounds like fun!
Burns: And the last team to arrive will be fired.
Homer: [chuckles] [realizing] Uh-oh.

And to show that I'm not playing favorites, both Smithers and I will be participating. Who knows? I might be the unlucky one who gets fired. [sotto voce] Not bloody likely.

the _correct_ quote is:

Sideshow Bob: "You wanted to be Krusty's sidekick since you were five! What about the buffoon lessons, the four years at clown college."
Cecil: "I'll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way."

- "Brother From Another Series", The Simpsons Episode 4F14

Thanks to Springfield Nuclear Power Planet

As long as the Gorillas haven't been genetically engineered to resist cold weather I will reluctantly go along with your plan.

Hihi,

You've been watching too much The simpsons shows.

This reminds of one of my favorite Simpsons lines:

Nerd: "I've invented a program to download porn up to a million times faster from the internet."
Marge: "Does anyone really need that much porno?"
Homer: "Uuuuuhhhuh... one million times..."

Homer the Great

Oh, so Mother Nature needs a favor? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing. Well I say, hard cheese. 4F17

No, but how about in the same ballpark. I'm not about to throw some red berries in my mouth just because I found them myself. If a fish doesn't die out of water, don't you think that's a little weird?

I guess little Ralph Willgum said it best:

Bart: What do they taste like Ralph?
Ralph: It tastes like.. burning.

Monkeyman334

Anyone else think of the femputer from futurama when they hear the name "simputer"?

Monkelectric

You are SOOOO close... But its actually "femputer" from episode 5 season 3, "Amazon Women in the Mood"...

Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop closed a little early tonight, didn't it?

Remember: Preview is your friend.

As for the last airing, that is dependent on your local syndication partner.

Oh, and in the tradition of Comic Book Guy, the quote is "80 past 2 on April 47th" :-)

Please, spare us the same old fawning over Japanese management technique and all ... I'm reminded of the formerly non-bald Homer Simpson going on and on about "jiko-kanri" as the audience walks out one by one.

What you say about kaizen (which, when stripped of its Peter Drucker / MBA-buzzword sheen, means literally nothing more than "improvement") is true, but the article was not about building reliability into design and manufacturing processes, and it wasn't about why Japanese consumer products are better than those from the rest of the world. It was about markets and consumer preferences, and why certain Japanese-made products aren't available overseas.

Toshiba sells a lot of laptop computers in the US, and you can rest assured that they receive the same level of "kaizen" in their design, marketing, and manufacturing as the domestic models, from which they were in turn developed.

I think the points made in the article were valid, all four of them. None of them are new, I've heard them all before, but they should be pretty self-evident to anyone who's tried to sell consumer goods in Japan (no, I haven't).

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Jeez, the stuff I just wrote is far more informative than Slate's rubbish. I wonder if the author has evern BEEN to Japan.
>>>

1) No it wasn't.
2) Read the second paragraph of the article.

It's from a Simpsons episode entitled "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" in which Homer "knows too much" and gets transported to an island which is a spoof of "The Prisoner" -- it even has a guest voice of Patrick McGoohan in it as one of the other prisoners.

I hear that the rock is being represented in court by inanimate carbon rod

geeze I didn't know Dredrick Tatum was a /. devotee!

For those of you who missed it, this refers to the Simpsons, 3F23, "You Only Move Twice". SNPP has the episode capsule.

For those of you who missed it, this refers to the Simpsons, 3F23, "You Only Move Twice". SNPP has the episode capsule.

Brockman: [on air] And as my final newscast draws to a close, I'm reminded of a few of the events that brought me closer to you: the collapse of the Soviet Union, premium ice cream price wars, dogs that were mistakenly issued major credit cards, and others who weren't so lucky. And so, farewell. Uh, and don't forget to look for my new column in PC World magazine.

Sideshow Bob: Success! They're giving in. Blast! I should've made more demands. Some decent local marmalade for one. Oh well, next time.